Henry Schein 2005 Annual Report Download - page 12

1995 ▲2005
HENRY SCHEIN
10
Our culture is defined by our values, including mutual
responsibility, ethical behavior, creativity and open
communication. We recognize that each Team Schein
Member is a vital spoke in the Team Schein
“Wheel of Success,” and that each person is as important
as the next. We also believe in ongoing sales force
education and training to make each interaction as
productive as possible for our customers. And we are
committed to enhancing diversity and cultural
competency throughout our Company to better serve
our changing customer base.
Our Team Schein Culture includes a commitment to
social responsibility, which we put into action through
Henry Schein Cares, our global corporate citizenship
program. The mission of Henry Schein Cares is to assist
in narrowing the disparity in the delivery of healthcare
services and information in underserved communities,
both in the United States and abroad, by providing
resources to support the programs of community-based
health professionals and their organizations.
Through Henry Schein Cares, we address issues of
importance to our customers. For example, through a
four-year collaboration with the American Dental
Association (ADA), we have served as exclusive
distributor of professional products for the annual Give
Kids a Smile program. With the support of more than 50
of our manufacturing partners, we furnish nearly 40,000
dental volunteers with the supplies they need to treat
more than one million underserved children on a single day.
We also use our core competencies to help address
disaster relief, as we did following the catastrophic Asian
tsunamis and the devastating earthquake in Pakistan.
When Hurricanes Katrina and Rita struck the U.S. Gulf
Coast, we activated our disaster relief hotline for our
customers and shipped dental, medical, and veterinary
supplies to state health departments in the affected areas.
We worked closely with government officials, relief
agencies and industry partner associations, stored relief
products and vaccines in our distribution centers, and
established a program to match, dollar-for-dollar, disaster
relief contributions made by Team Schein Members. In
partnership with the ADA, we also dispatched
Tomorrow’s Dental Office Today—a mobile, technology-
driven dental resource—to Mississippi to enable dental
professionals to provide emergency dental treatment
for area residents.
Henry Schein Cares programs give back to our
local communities as well. We help children return to
the classroom with new outfits and backpacks
filled with school supplies, and provide gifts to less
fortunate children through our Back-To-School and
Holiday Cheer initiatives.
What Sets Us Apart
Team Schein Members
1995 – 2,600 2005 – 11,000
The mission of Henry Schein Cares is to assist in narrowing the disparity in the delivery of healthcare
services and information in underserved communities, both in the United States and abroad, by providing
resources to support the programs of community-based health professionals and their organizations.
We believe our Company’s greatest asset is Team Schein,
which includes nearly 11,000 members who have built
a unique corporate culture that focuses on delivering
the best possible service to our customers.